Evaluation Note / Erhan Türbedar Serbia's Road to EU and Kosovo

A Western Balkans Conference was held on March 20, 2010 with the joint efforts of Ljubljana and Zagreb in Brdo near Kranj in Slovenia. The conference was aimed at bringing together the highest-level representatives of the regional countries after a gap of 18 years. This was to show to the international community that years of regional enmity was a thing of the past. However, Serbian President Boris Tadic, citing the invitation made to Kosovo, refused to attend the conference. Serbia thus revealed once again that Kosovo lies at the core of its foreign policy.